College Data: Open Book Program
A resource to help you assess your college options
What is Open Book?
Augustana College has developed a new resource called Open Book to help prospective students and their families explore, compare and assess real data during the college search. Other excellent liberal arts colleges also have taken similar steps as "honest brokers" of information, making it available to the public through web-based and other search tools.
Through Open Book, you can put together the details that present an overall picture of a college's mission, values and culture.
What will Open Book tell me about Augustana College?
Augustana's information is categorized according to three main principles that overlap within each student's life at college-academic, co-curricular and social.
Data includes the basics, such as programs, accreditation, faculty-student ratio and class sizes, but also provides information that allows you to:
- weigh student satisfaction with programs such as food services, or facilities and resources such as the library or computer labs
- get a sense of the atmosphere of ethnic or cultural understanding on campus
- find out the percentage of Augustana students who engage in internships or do research with a professor
- measure growth in leadership ability and responsibility throughout a student's four years at Augustana
- find out what percentage of seniors would choose Augustana all over again
Why was Open Book developed?
The annual college rankings found in popular magazines such as U.S. News are based on resources and reputations-in other words, they weigh input rather than looking at outcomes, or the success of the entire student experience. Since the rankings don't evaluate the overall effectiveness of a college experience, they can't provide a good answer to the question of which college is the best fit for any individual student.
Augustana College has been carefully collecting and monitoring such data for 30 years, both through internal and nationally normed assessments, and therefore is in a good position to present such information to the public.
| The Basics |
| Type of School Private |
4-year |
| Calendar System |
Quarters (3 per year) |
| Application deadline Rolling |
February preferred |
| Financial aid deadline |
- |
| Total student enrollment |
2500 |
| Student:Faculty ratio |
12:1 |
| Accreditation |
North Central Association |
| Religious affiliation |
Lutheran - ELCA |
| Athletic Division |
NCAA Division III |
| Percent of students in campus housing |
96% of first-year, 71% overall |
| Percent of students age |
17-22 98% |
| Admissions | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 |
| Applied |
3291 |
2921 |
2874 |
| Admitted |
2468 |
2462 |
2223 |
| Enrolled |
691 |
679 |
599 |
| Middle 50% ACT score |
23 - 29 |
24 - 29 |
24 - 29 |
| Average high school GPA |
3.56 |
3.56 |
3.57 |
| Transfer students enrolled |
50 |
63 |
77 |
| Enrollment | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 |
| Full-time men |
1037 (42%) |
987 |
971 |
| Full-time women |
1406 (58%) |
1376 |
1295 |
| Total full-time |
2443 |
2363 |
2266 |
| Total part-time |
20 |
23 |
26 |
| Diversity |
| Asian American |
2% |
| Black American |
2% |
| Hispanic American |
3% |
| Native American |
1% |
| International |
1% |
| Catholic |
36% |
| Lutheran |
23% |
| Other/none |
41% |
| Class Size |
| Average class size |
22 |
| Percent 2-9 |
19% |
| Percent 10-19 |
41% |
| Percent 20-29 |
27% |
| Percent 30-39 |
9% |
| Percent 40-49 |
3% |
| Percent over 50 |
1% |
| Retention and Graduation |
| First-Year to Sophomore retention |
85% |
| Four-year graduation rate |
71% |
| Five-year graduation rate |
76% |
| Six-year graduation rate |
77% |
| Curriculum |
| Number of majors |
43 |
| Number of minors |
39 |
| Self designed major |
Yes |
| Study abroad program |
Yes |
| Student research program |
Yes |
| Honors program |
Yes |
| Internship program |
Yes |
| Popular areas of study (% of graduates) |
| Biological sciences/pre-med |
14% |
| Business administration |
18% |
| Education |
5% |
| English |
11% |
| Psychology |
8% |
| Co-Curriculum/ Extra Curriculum |
| Number of student clubs |
150 |
| % of men who join a fraternity |
34% |
| % of women who join a sorority |
38% |
| Number of music ensembles |
16 |
| Number of intercollegiate athletic teams |
men-10, women-9 |
| Faculty |
| Full-time male |
91 |
| Full-time female |
71 |
| Total Full-time |
164 |
| Percent with PhD or terminal degree |
93% |
| Percent female |
43% |
| Percent faculty of color |
10% |
| Part-time faculty |
85 |
| Student:faculty ratio |
12:1 |
| Costs of Attendance |
| Tuition/ Fees |
$ 26,484 |
| Room and board |
$ 7,233 |
| Books, transportation & other (estimate) |
$ 1,875 |
| Total |
$ 35,592 |
| Financial Assistance |
| Total grant aid all sources |
$ 24,066,524 |
| Total institutional grant aid |
$ 19,275,700 |
| Average net tuition for all students |
$ 14,793 |
| Average loans owed at graduation |
$ 17,100 |
| Percent of students receiving: |
| State grants |
53% |
| Federal loans |
65% |
| Institutional grants |
95% |
| Student Satisfaction |
| 94% of seniors rate their educational experience as good or excellent |
| 88% of seniors would attend Augustana again if they could start over |
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